Feasts:
The Conception by Saint Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos;
Saints:
Prophetess Anna (Hannah), mother of ProphetSamuel (ca.1100 BC);
Saint Vassa (Bassa), Patrician and Igumenia of a female monastery in Jerusalem, where she also founded the Monastery of St Menas, whose Abbot was the Bishop Stephanos of Jamnia;
Martyr Easios, tortured and beheaded (ca.284-305);
Martyr Isaac;
Martyr Nerses of Persia, by the sword;
Martyr Sositheus of Persia, by the sword (553);
Saint Sophronius the Archbishop of Cyprus (6th c.)
Saint Stephen “the New Light” of Constantinople (912);
Saint Syrus of Pavia, first Bishop and main patron-saint of Pavia in Italy (ca. 1st c.);
Virgin-martyr Valerie of Limoges (Valeria of Aquitaine), converted by St Martial of Limoges and beheaded (1st or 3rd c.);
Virgin-martyr Leocadia (Locaie), in Toledo, Spain (ca.303);
Saint Proculus of Verona, Bishop of Verona, a confessor during the persecution of Diocletian, reposed in peace (ca.320);
Martyrs Peter, Successus, Bassian, Primitivus and 20 other Companions, in North Africa;
Saint Cyprian, a monk at Périgueux in France, who ended his life as a hermit on the banks of the Dordogne (586);
Saint Restitutus, Bishop of Carthage in North Africa and Martyr;
Saint Balda, third Abbess of Jouarre in France (7th c.);
Saint Budoc (Budeaux), born in Brittany, became Abbot of Youghal in Ireland, then Bishop of Dol in Brittany (7th c.?);
Saint Ethelgiva (Æthelgifu), the daughter of King Alfred the Great, became first Abbess of Shaftesbury (896);
Saint Wolfeius, a hermit at St Benet Hulme in Norfolk in England (ca. 1000);
Saint Enguerrammus (Angilram) 'the Wise', monk and Abbot of Saint Riquier in France (1045);
Hieromonk Anthymus the Athonite, "Fool-for-Christ";
New Hieromartyr Vladimir, priest (1919);
New Hieromartyr Vladimir, priest and Virgin-martyr Ephrosia (1920);
New Hieromartyrs Protopresbyter Basil Yagodin, and priest Alexander Buravtsev (1937);
New Martyr Priest Sergius Mechiev of Moscow (1941);
New-MartyrArchpriest Paul Levashov of Gomel;
Other Commemorations:
Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection at Jerusalem (335);
Repose of Archimandrite Theodosius of Tismana and Sophroniev Monasteries, fellow-struggler of St. Paisius Velichkovsky (1802);
Repose of Elder Anthimus the Bulgarian on Mt. Athos (1867);
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy".